that summer a woman named florence greenberg traveled from chicago, illinois to washington to offer her testimony. greenberg was a member of the women's auxiliary spending her days working in the communities around chicago's steel mills. greenberg told the audience that the national health conference that he had come to offer them a different picture of chicago. just steps away from the comfortable headquarter of the american medical association, was a chicago of dirt, filth, and tenements, of sick chicago where people struggled with terrible health con decisions relatedded to poverty and unemployment and struggled to obtain baiivel medical care. the overcrowded cook county hospital. the city's only hospital which locals described as death house. a single overcrowded private hospital served the entire african-american community of the south side. chicago's outpatient clinics were fill the to busting. she spoke with people too sick to leave their homes or couldn't afford the few pen if penny for transportation to a clinic. she told the audience about the child with that mown ya after bei